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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Hand Made

My days of "made by hand" have been few and far between recently. I could have posted a picture of my new house which wasn't hand made by me but was built by my daughter's husband. Everything I own that has been hand made has been packed away in boxes for months now and nothing new has been done recently. I thought of taking a picture of a lovely quilt that I have with me, which was made by my grandmother many years ago but haven't even got a camera right now that will take a good photo of it.

I always hesitate (just a little) to label my digital collage/montage work as "handmade" but in fact, they are. I choose the layers, the colours and I decide how to "tweak" each layer in Photoshop. In the case of the piece above and many others that I do, I also took the photograph that was used. This is just one in a series that I've been working on, using a black and white photograph and blending or digitally painting, a solid colour into the photograph and then adding collage layers. (The lower half was originally a field of pumpkins).

5 comments:

  1. Well, Kate, that is very impressive to me. I have Photoshop and I don't do any fancy things with it yet! I will try to be creative one of these years though I am fast running out of them!

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  2. This photo is stunning with the way you have tweaked it. I love the vibrant shades of orange.

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  3. i love how you composed this - the bright orange in contrast to the monotones is really striking

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  4. art is art...all hand made of sorts, this is really cool!

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  5. This is beautiful!!! Absolutely perfect and inspiring!

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